Murder suspect Fred Stettler, Los Angeles, 1936

Description: Fred Stettler sits facing the camera with one arm flung over the back of his chair.
25-year-old Swiss chauffeur Gottfried "Fred" Stettler is being held in suspicion of the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Carl and Dorothea Barbour. Stettler was charged with two counts of murder, two counts of burglary, and one count of arson. The victims were found partially cremated in bed with their skulls smashed.
This photograph is possibly related to the article, “Dual Killing Quiz Grows,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1936: 9
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Text from negative sleeve: 3841 ---- Fred Stettler, Capt Bert Wallis, Det Lt Ledbetter, clock murder case 2-21-36 [stamped:] [illegible date]
Handwritten on negative: Fred Stettler 2/21/36

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Stettler, Gottfried, b. 1911
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Chauffeurs--California--Los Angeles
Criminals--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12890
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hn05d
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